Politics, Constitutionalism, and the Rule of Law
By T.R.S. Allan
Constitutional theory and practice are alike afflicted by a constant tension between commitments to majoritarian democracy—the people’s will—and human rights. Professor T.R.S....
The Domestic and the Foreign: Mutual Entanglement Through Social Diversity
By Christopher Hill
Foreign and domestic policies have always interacted. But now, especially in developed democracies, they are mutually entangled in new ways, through the...
Overview of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Middle East
By Dima Jamali
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Middle East has distinctive roots and unique expressions that do not always mirror the current understanding...
Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)
By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips
A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...
A Review of Abenomics: The Bold Plan to End Deflationary Recession in Japan
By Mitsuru Misawa
In order to catalyse economic activity and pull Japan from its two-decade period of deflationary recession, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has...
Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: advocacy and opportunity for civil...
By Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel and Mustafa Koc
Traditional approaches to food and agriculture policy making in Canada are in question, with the realization that...
InnovaBRICS & Beyond: An Interview with Marcos Troyjo
Marcos Troyjo is Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a special forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China at Columbia's School of International...
The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...
Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries
By Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker
Terrorist attacks in the last decade have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of many legal systems. Below, Aniceto...
Writing Theory from the South: The Global Order from an African Perspective
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data....
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
